Venezuela opposition seeks new polls, military help, against Maduro

Venezuela’s opposition, still smarting from its failure to remove President Nicolas Maduro last year, installed a new congress head on Thursday who demanded across-the-board elections and sought military help to end “dictatorship”.

In a renewal of Venezuela’s bitter politics after the holiday lull, the ruling Socialist Party responded that the National Assembly was in contempt of the law.

Maduro forecast its imminent “self-dissolution.”

The opposition coalition won control of the Assembly at the end of 2015 thanks to voter ire at Venezuela’s unrelenting economic crisis. But authorities blocked their attempt to oust Maduro via a plebiscite last year …. http://www.reuters.com